WadersBanded Lapwing Bar-tailed Godwit Black-fronted Dotterel Black-necked Stilt Hooded Plover Inland Dotterel Lesser Sand Plover Long-toed Stint Oriental Plover Pacific Golden Plover Pectoral Sandpiper Red-necked Avocet Red-necked Stint Ruff Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Sooty Oystercatcher
The wonderful looking Black-fronted Dotterel (Elseyornis melanops) is often seen all year, around many inland waterholes.
They have streaked upperparts, with strong white eyebrow, and a heavy black line through the eye. The adults have a distinctive black V shape mark on their chest. Their two-tone mottled brown feathers help them blend in with the sand and pebbles at the water’s edge. They have red eye-ring.
Images © Dorothy L
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Charadriidae
- Genus: Elseyornis
- Species: E. melanops
- Binomial name: Elseyornis melanops
WadersBanded Lapwing Bar-tailed Godwit Black-fronted Dotterel Black-necked Stilt Hooded Plover Inland Dotterel Lesser Sand Plover Long-toed Stint Oriental Plover Pacific Golden Plover Pectoral Sandpiper Red-necked Avocet Red-necked Stint Ruff Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Sooty Oystercatcher